Adelaide : a literary city / edited by Philip Butterss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

University of Adelaide Press, issuing body.

Butterss, Philip, 1958- editor.

Series:

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian literature--Australia--South Australia--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Adelaide (S.A.)--In literature.

Adelaide (S.A.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today's flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, in the sense of having been written about - sometimes with love, sometimes with scorn. Literature has been important not only to the city's cultural life but to its identity, to the way it has been seen and, most importantly, to the way it has seen itself.

Contents:

Adelaide as literary city : introduction / Philip Butterss

Acts of writing / Kerryn Goldsworthy

Colonial wordsmith: George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860-1870 / Anne Black

Scots and Scottish literature in literary Adelaide / Graham Tulloch

'An entertaining young genious' : C.J. Dennis and Adelaide / Philip Butterss

Adelaide around 1935 : stories of herself when young / Susan Sheridan

Adelaide and the country : the literary dimension / Jill Roe

'Fearful affinity': Jindyworobak primitivism / Peter Kirkpatrick

The Athens of the south / Alison Broinowski

Max Harris : a phenomenal Adelaide literary figure / Betty Snowden

Geoffrey Dutton : little Adelaide and New York Nowhere / Nicholas Jose

New York nowhere : meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital / Geoffrey Dutton

Coffee with Ken : Ken Bolton's Adelaide / Jill Jones

'A dozy city' : Adelaide in J.M. Coetzee's Slow man and Amy T. Matthew's End of the night girl / Gillian Dooley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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OCLC:

883025418

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